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...foxhole, survival depends on putting any differences aside. Perhaps that explains why General Tommy Franks and Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld left work one night recently for a stag dinner right out of a buddy movie. Back in January, their wives out of town, Franks and Rumsfeld hit a Georgetown sushi bar after the multimillionaire Pentagon chief decided to give the Oklahoma-born and Texas-reared artilleryman his first taste of raw fish. As Franks recalled it, "About midafternoon he said, 'Let's go eat sushi,' and I said, 'Eat what?' I told him I'd be proud...
...along with Rumsfeld--who doesn't suffer fools lightly, especially if they are in uniform--because he has the right mix of attitude and intellect. More than a dozen senior officers who have worked with him over the years say that behind the aw-shucks, I've-never-had-sushi wrapping is a very well-oiled military mind. In an interview with TIME, Rumsfeld heaped praise on his field marshal for being open to new ideas. "He's intelligent and quick, and he knows his stuff," Rumsfeld said. "He has total ownership over these matters. He cares only about what...
...Eating sushi does not make you enlightened. Thinking that religious people are silly for believing in an imaginary man in the sky does not make you enlightened. What happened to the idea that cultural differences are to be respected and appreciated? That is not to say, however, that any such differences within the United States are very pronounced. The Midwest is not very different than anywhere else in the country other than the fact that its citizens are not pretentious enough to believe that it is so much better than another particular region. If you’ve ever been...
...Japan, I can eat sushi,” she says. “If I go to India, I can eat Indian food. If I go to Africa, I’m right at home...
...course, in the real world, psychiatric diagnosis doesn't--or at least shouldn't--work like a checklist at a sushi counter. Many of the items that appear as diagnostic criteria in the DSM are sometimes symptoms of a disorder and sometimes signs of perfectly normal behavior. An adolescent who "often argues with adults" may have an unusual condition called "oppositional defiant disorder" or a more common condition called "being 14 years old." The DSM includes a cautionary statement saying it takes clinical training to tell the difference. But many nonspecialists use the book too: insurers open the DSM when...